[Swiftwater Gazette] Health Care Gets Even Worse!

[Brad Haslett]

First, here's a video -

http://tinyurl.com/nbz9ny

The kid is hard to understand so I'm posting a transcript below.
Here's the scary part about what he said -

"Ezekiel Emanuel, Rahm Emmanuel’s brother, who is involved in the
wording of the House Bill said, “Medical care should be reserved for
the non-disabled, not given to those “who are irreversibly prevented
from being or becoming participating citizens…"

I did a little homework on that and indeed he said it, here is the
just part of what the doctor said -

Emanuel, however, believes that “communitarianism” should guide
decisions on who gets care. He says medical care should be reserved
for the non-disabled, not given to those “who are irreversibly
prevented from being or becoming participating citizens . . . An
obvious example is not guaranteeing health services to patients with
dementia” (Hastings Center Report, Nov.-Dec. ‘96). Read the whole
thing - http://tinyurl.com/l3knuk

It gets worse -

- Vague promises of savings from cutting waste, enhancing prevention
and wellness, installing electronic medical records and improving
quality are merely ‘lipstick’ cost control, more for show and public
relations than for true change,” he wrote last year (Health Affairs
Feb. 27, 2008).

- Savings, he writes, will require changing how doctors think about
their patients: Doctors take the Hippocratic Oath too seriously, “as
an imperative to do everything for the patient regardless of the cost
or effects on others” (Journal of the American Medical Association,
June 18, 2008)."

- Unlike allocation by sex or race, allocation by age is not invidious
discrimination; every person lives through different life stages
rather than being a single age. Even if 25-year-olds receive priority
over 65-year-olds, everyone who is 65 years now was previously 25
years” (Lancet, Jan. 31).

Now I knew Rahm Emanuel was crazy, but his brother the medical doctor
sounds like Dr. Mengele to me. And what the hell is  communitarianism?
THIS IS THE PERSON WRITING THE HEALTH CARE BILL! What he's saying is
that some government employee, maybe someone from ACORN, will
determine if you're too old, or too crazy to receive treatment.

Read the whole source article in the New York Post here -

http://tinyurl.com/lasau2

Pass the word, share this, is this what you want? PLEASE! Fight this
thing! (don't forget the transcript below)

Brad

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CONCERNS FROM A VOTER WITH A DISABILITY
McCASKILL TOWN HALL MEETING
JULY 27, 2009

I am a young adult who is profoundly deaf with a cochlear implant,
starting my second year of college in September.

I would not be able to hear anything without my implant, except maybe
a jet engine.

With my cochlear implant, I can talk on the telephone, I can carry on
oral conversations, and I can hear music. It has enriched my life
tremendously.

Cochlear implant surgery is not inexpensive. Currently it costs
between $50,000 and $60,000 per ear.

After this surgery it is important to receive the correct education
afterward so the child can learn how to talk. It is expensive to
educate a child who is deaf.

It is also expensive to provide services to a child who is deaf who is
not oral. Interpreters are needed for them to talk to people who are
hearing.

When my mother told me of the health bills being considered by the
House and Senate, and how they impacted disabled people, I wanted
people to know how that would impact me and how difficult it would be
to succeed in life without the services I have received.

Ezekiel Emanuel, Rahm Emmanuel’s brother, who is involved in the
wording of the House Bill said, “Medical care should be reserved for
the non-disabled, not given to those “who are irreversibly prevented
from being or becoming participating citizens…” “.

Does that include me? If medical decisions are being made by the
government; not by my doctors, my parents, or me, I would be
determined to be too expensive to receive the services I need to be
able to navigate my way in the world.

This is a bad plan for those with special needs. Tell Senator
McCaskill to vote NO.

Noah Logue
St. Louis, MO